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80 SharePoint Developer Questions And Answers

63⟩ Tell us web Applications Vs Site Collections Vs Sites in SharePoint?

SharePoint Site basically is a website. SharePoint allows us to create websites of specific types like Personal site, a Team Site, a social media site, a blogs or a Wiki Site etc.

On the other hand, a Site Collection in SharePoint is a collection of SharePoint sites that share common features like Content types, Templates, Site columns, permissions, Web Parts etc.

A Web Application is a collection of Site Collections in SharePoint OR in order way a site collection resides in a

web application. Normally a SharePoint web application is corresponds to a website in IIS means when a SharePoint Web application is created, it creates a WebSite and an application Pool in IIS .

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64⟩ Explain me what is PromotedActions delegate Control used for?

PromotedActions Delegate Control is responsible for displaying Links “Share,

Follow, SYNC, EDIT” in top right below SuiteLinksDelegate Control. These Links can be replaced by Overriding PromotedActions Delegate Control using a Custom Control Created using Visual Studio.

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65⟩ Explain me what is the new Out-of-box PDF Support?

SharePoint 2013 now offers Out-of-box PDF Support and what that really means is that PDF icon is now natively supported and PDF when opened in SharePoint 2013 will try to open in the Adobe Reader and prompt user to either checkout & open or open the file in PDF directly.

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68⟩ Explain me what is CAML?

CALM tands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.

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69⟩ Tell us what is a Site Collection in SharePoint?

1. A site collection is a set of web sites.

2. Every site collection has top-level site, created when the site collection is created.

3. THere might be multiple site collections in web application and each site collection may have a multiple child sites.

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71⟩ Do you know what are the new “Digital Content types”?

In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft has introduced a new set of content types called “Digital Asset Content Types” for better use of Audio, Video and Images as Web Content.These content types can be added to any library and can be used as a one of the items files.

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74⟩ Do you know what kind of Apps Can Developed?

The Code for an app runs in different places, depending on where your app is hosted.They never run in the context of SharePoint Server, but they will run in the context of the browser or in the context of the hosted platform.You Can Develop three kind of Apps –

SharePoint-hosted apps

Provider-hosted and autohosted apps – In the cloud

Apps that have a mix of Components in SharePoint and in the cloud

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75⟩ Tell us what are Callout Popups in SharePoint 2013?

Similar to Dialog framework in SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has added a new Callout Popup framework to Create Hover Popups that you know as Preview Windows as well. These NotificationTooltipHelp (whatever you call it..) Callout Popups can be fully Customized to add Custom Text & Actions for guiding End-users.

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76⟩ Please explain what is SuiteBarBrandingDelegate delegate Control used for?

SuiteBarBrandingDelegate Delegate Control is responsible for displaying ‘SharePoint’ or ‘Office 365’ text on top left of the new SharePoint 2013 site (in the blue bar). This text can only be replaced by Overriding SuiteBarBrandingDelegate Delegate Control with a custom Custom Control Created using Visual Studio.

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77⟩ Tell us what is new with Social Capabilities in SharePoint 2013?

In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft has Introduced new Social Capabilities to let users Collaborate Socially in the Company. My Sites have been enhanced Incredibly to Integrate these Social features. Some of the new Features added are Community Sites, Microblogging, NewsfeedSite feed, Follow people and Follow Sites.

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79⟩ Tell me what is MOSS?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is the full version of a portal-based platform for collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and Web services.

In MOSS additional feature add that can not in WSS 3.0.

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80⟩ Explain me what is new with Visual WebPart in SharePoint 2013?

A new Visual WebPart Template has been added to Visual Studio 2012 for Creating Visual Webparts for SharePoint 2013. In this new Template both the User Control and WebPart Classes are merged to Create one template unlike SharePoint 2010 where you had a separate ascx and webpart file. Also, now you can Create both Sandbox and Farm solutions using Visual WebPart Template.

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